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ǂA 16 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, DATED 1772

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ǂA 16 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, DATED 1772
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ǂA 16 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, DATED 1772 reconverted from percussion, with rebrowned two-stage barrel fitted with silver ~spider~ fore-sight, gold-filled maker~s stamps, platinum vent, engraved bolted lock with roller (top-jaw and screw missing), figured walnut half-stock lightly carved with foliage and finely inlaid with silver-wire scrolls and engraved flower-heads, steel mounts finely engraved and chiselled with flowers and foliage, including butt-plate and pierced side-plate, dated escutcheon engraved with the owner~s name ~Thos Alston Esqr~ with chiselled scallop shell above, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 92.6 cm; 36 ½ in barrel Provenance Christie~s, 25th February 1981, lot 108

ǂA 16 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, DATED 1772 reconverted from percussion, with rebrowned two-stage barrel fitted with silver ~spider~ fore-sight, gold-filled maker~s stamps, platinum vent, engraved bolted lock with roller (top-jaw and screw missing), figured walnut half-stock lightly carved with foliage and finely inlaid with silver-wire scrolls and engraved flower-heads, steel mounts finely engraved and chiselled with flowers and foliage, including butt-plate and pierced side-plate, dated escutcheon engraved with the owner~s name ~Thos Alston Esqr~ with chiselled scallop shell above, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 92.6 cm; 36 ½ in barrel Provenance Christie~s, 25th February 1981, lot 108

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